Isolationism

A good friend of mine (with apparently better eyesight than my own) over at Push the Third Button Twice made a recent editorial post about a new trend against, in the Blog Herald’s own words, “blogging for money,” which I think should be rewritten to “knowingly blogging biased content for financial gain” (but then I should talk because the Blog Herald is obviously a way more successful blog than mine. I wasn’t even thinking of the word “sensationalism,” why do you mention it?).

MCM (A.K.A. Mr Andrews) suggests that the blogger’s mores already encapsulate this so-called “Honour Pledge” (with or without the ‘u’, as you please), and that the internet will act as a unified force against any foul play on the part of the blogger and disgrace their name (and, presumably, the blgo). My gut reaction is to want to agree with him.

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I once heard an apt description Ottawa in that it has two seasons: Summer and Winter.

I was out at 8:00pm tonight to barbeque some venison burgers (kindly donated from Becka’s friend, Sandy, some months ago—they were delicious, thank you Sandy and Scott) and the barbeque cover was welded on with ice even though the temperature at the airport even now (at nearly 1:00am) is still one degree above the freezing point.

I don’t hate the winter, but it’s definitely not my favourite season. Here are a few things I’d like to try (and one or two I try to do already) to beat the winter blues.

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